Enteromius cadenati

Enteromius cadenati is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius which is endemic to the Konkouré basin in Guinea.[1]

Enteromius cadenati
Barbus cadenati
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Enteromius
Species:
E. cadenati
Binomial name
Enteromius cadenati
(Daget, 1962)
Synonyms

Barbus cadenati Daget, 1962

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Jean Cadenat (1908-1992), the Director of the Marine Biological Section of the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, who collected one specimen of the fish in 1947.[2]


Footnotes

  1. P. Lalèyè (2010). "Barbus cadenati". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2010: e.T182296A7852906. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T182296A7852906.en.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 October 2021.


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